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InCtrl :: Cable in the Classroom - 0 views

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  • bwjkim on 30 Jan 14
     
    Digital citizenship education empowers students to make thoughtful decisions and develop a sound digital foundation for the rest of their lives. Cable in the Classroom brings you a series of free, standards-based lessons that teach key digital citizenship concepts. These lessons, for students in grades 4-8, are designed to engage students through inquiry-based activities, and collaborative and creative opportunities.
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ipads@yis - 1 views

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  • elisabeth abarbanel on 23 Jan 14
     
    description of why go 2:1, ipads and laptops
  • Bob Kahn on 23 Jan 14
     
    I hope we go with laptops in the MS and then maybe kids get ipads in the US and can have access to both. My personal bias is that laptops are more useful for creating and ipads are more about consuming.
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Programming Power? Does Learning to Code Empower Kids? | DMLcentral - 0 views

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  • it’s clear that even professional coding is a complex and precarious activity.
  • incessant updating of skills and fluency in different programming languages, coding packages, operating systems, and so on—such an impossible learning requirement that many programming experts barely know what they are doing.
  • “ignorant expertise,”
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  • Even more alarmingly, the technical complexity of programming means that many programmers are so absorbed in solving technical problems that they overlook the human and social consequences of what they are producing
  • software development has high failure rates to show it.
  • how dominant capitalist algorithmic ideology works.
  • how political and economic ambitions around learning to code rest on glossy representations that bear little resemblance with the reality of instability, dysfunction and failure in the software landscape, or with the ideologies underpinning its practices.
  • about the democratizing potential of programming and arguments advocating learning to code that are based on ideas about learning to produce and not just consume technologies.
  • it’s important to be a little cautious of the claims around “democratisation,” “co-production,” “presumption,” and so on, that accompany these kinds of arguments.
  • He argues that the software algorithms running in social media are a new source of social power, or “algorithmic power,” that is increasingly altering the actual functioning of culture in everyday settings.
  • commercial sponsorship of learning to code initiatives and activities by many of today’s most powerful social media and computing companies is evidence of this entanglement of media engagement and corporate power in an increasingly algorithmic culture.
  • be studied and researched carefully in order to get past the hype.
  • Looking at learning to code in terms of power serves as a reminder that while programming may be an empowering activity, it is also shaped by wider issues of power in educational technology, the political and economic power that shapes programming, and the algorithmic power shaping cultural participation with digital media.
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MAKE | Transforming a School Library Into a Makerspace - 0 views

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shared by elisabeth abarbanel on 18 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • elisabeth abarbanel on 18 Sep 13
     
    i would love to do something like this.. need budget, staff, and time! and space! maybe the minilab.. :-) It is where I'd like to see our Makerbreak evolve..
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A Digital Future: K-12 Technology by 2018 - 0 views

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  • Bob Kahn on 17 Sep 13
     
    Matthew Lynch describes 1, 3, 5 year ed tech horizons for k-12 learning.
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